The Boneless and The beast

Chapter 14: psycholodgical war fare with a wolf

Ivar's POV

Fiadh's bare body was laying on mine, the water was so nice and relaxing, the only thing to be heard was our breathing  and the flicker of the fire. "One thing I miss when winter is upon us, is swimming...do you swim Ivar?" Fiadh asked while playing with my fingers, I sighed "I do not, I am afraid I'll drown and besides my legs don't work like yours" I say leaning back slightly, "when it's spring, you can hold onto me like I'm carrying you and then you can use your arms" she suggested, "maybe, just maybe Fiadh" I say quietly "I love your tattoos by the way Ivar, they are very intimidating, they'd scare any English men away" she says jesting, I smirked and shook my head. "Although you said earlier about me have a pregnant wife back in Kattegat, I don't know what your Irish do between partners but we Norsemen share our partners like my father had bjorn with largatha and with my mother, he had Ubbe, Sigurd, hvitserk and me...the best one" I explained, she just groaned in agreement.

"What? Why the groan? Are you a child Fiadh? Hmm" I say pushing her off me, she moved away to the other side of the bath tub. "Why do you act like your the best all the time?huh? Ivar you are a man not a god...how many times must I say this? You barely listen to me let alone hear me." She spoke up with conviction in her voice, "that's better but I am the best, I have many men under my rule and shield maidens too. I would have bishop heachmund on my side too, he was a great swordsman but you.." I pointed to her " you ripped his throat out, he choked on his own British blood before you even got to that cage I had you in for so long until that other cage you where in until we took Kattegat back, remember it? I can easily get you in any other like that again, so don't go against me Fiadh don't ever doubt my power over Kattegat and one day OVER ALL OF NORWAY!!" I yelled trying to get under her skin which I could tell was working because her real eyes where showing and claws had pierced the sides of the metal tub. "Are you afraid now wolf? Are you angry yet? Have I gotten under the monster skin of yours?!" I yelled as she looked at her claws and took them off the sides of the tub once she pulled herself out and dried herself, got mostly dressed and I was going to continue then she came at me and clawed open the tub letting the water pour out. I glared at her and she then gripped my throat I could feel her claws ready the rip my throat out. " do it, I'll be with my father in Valhalla, dining with Odin and other fallen Norsemen" I said proudly and look up at her, she low growls and lowered her self to be by my ear "you have no real power Ivar, only fear....fear in the eyes of people, in their very fragile bones the fear lies and yes I remember those cages, all those hours and scraps of food like I was a pig in a farm, if I didn't know you and I had eventually found the pack I found, I would of lead them here, you'd be an easy kill despite you guards and weapons, wild wolfs are faster than those pathetic toys and look at you right now Ivar,....helpless and a prisoner in your own paranoid mind....but no I won't kill you Ivar, that'd be too easy and besides you will not be going to Valhalla, not with all the innocent blood on your hands in the name of power.." She spoke so low and sounded like she was somebody else, she is since she left and now she's here with a chance of killing me. "ENOUGH!!! You have spoken well Fiadh, I was testing you and you have passed....now let me go" I say gripping her two fingers closest to my chin and pulling them back quickly to they broke, she yelled and the guards came in and went for her "DON'T! She meant no harm.." I say quickly "but that bruise on your neck?" One guard said "she merely sucked on it, now go" I order, one of the men spit on the ground near where Fiadh stood.

Fiadh POV

...let me go" he says next thing I know he breaks my fingers and in come his guards, he orders them to leave me alone and they leave. "A test Ivar?! Are you jesting? A test?! Do you realize I could have killed you Ivar! Matter of fact I wanted too, I could your heart pumping...meaning you the great Ivar the boneless fear death" I yelled then looked him up and down as he got out of the now broken tub and covering himself up then crawled closer to the fire. "You had your chance to kill me just like I had my chance to kill you...yet we are both still here" he said sounding croaky because of my grip on his throat, I'm surprised I didn't choke him to death....it....it felt good having his throat in my hand...like the dream. "So yes it was a test, yes I know I could of died, I could of died many time in my youth...like when my father was going to leave me for the wolves when I was only days old" he spoke up as he gently held his neck looking at me. "Why don't you make me like you? Is there a way?" He asks, I know there is but I fear he is like me, he will be unstoppable. I shook my head as a no "there is no real way to become like me only myth, you'd have to be born one" I say getting the rest of my clothes on facing away from him moving around getting whatever clothes he could reach on and then I hear him crawling over towards me, next thing I know I'm falling into his arms but gripped tightly before hitting his legs, silence now filling the room again just our breath and the flames of the fire. He moves his right hand up to my cheek and brings his face closer to mine, he just kisses slowly and softly at first and I kissed back until eventually we fighting over dominance with our tongues, I pulled and just looked at him, I could tell he wanted more and he did, he was all over my neck and jawline, I moaned a little when he found a 'spot', I felt him chuckle and he began playing with my right breast.